Dual Layer and Chapter Points

Hi everyone.
I have just finished a wedding dvd and I'm having several problems burning it into a DVD+R DL (I am using Verbatim Printable now). The only way I can accomplish that is to generate a ISO file from encore and use ImgBurn to burn the dvd.
The problem is that after burning the DVD in ImgBurn, the chapter points I defined in encore's timeline are wrong. Some of them seem to be outdated for a few seconds and others are refering other chapter points, however in the preview of encore everything is fine.
It seems that it was created a chapter for the layer break i guess. Because when i navigate with  the ">>" button, the 3rd chapter is the ending of the 2nd... and is not mapped that way in encore preview.
Does anyone can help me out?

As we all know Toast resets the Dual Layer break
point to the exact point... no good if you want to
manually set it in DVDSP.
My question is if I create a disk image with the
point set in DVDSP and burn through disk utility will
the layer break point be reset or will it maintain
the DVDSP setting. As I can control the burn speed I
prefer this to direct burning from DVDSP
Thanks!!
Unfortunately, the break point may still change even if you burn an image file with Disk Utility. The issue isn't that Toast or Disk Utility are resetting the break point on purpose; it's that the disk image that DVDSP creates doesn't contain any layer break information. From page 584 of the DVDSP 4.1 manual: ".img: Use this option to create a disk image. With a dual-layer project, a single “.img” file contains the entire project, without any break point information."

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